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Tideline

Tideline
  • Author(s): Penny Hancock
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

One winter’s afternoon, voice coach Sonia opens the door of her beautiful riverside home at Greenwich, London, to fifteen-year-old Jez, the nephew of a family friend. He’s come to borrow some music. Sonia invites him in and soon decides...

Walk the Lines

Walk the Lines
  • Author(s): Mark Mason
  • Location(s): London
  • Era(s): Modern

The only way to truly discover a city, they say, is on foot. Taking this to extremes, Mark Mason sets out to walk the entire length of the London Underground – overground – passing every station on the way....

The Girl on the Train

The Girl on the Train
  • Author(s): Paula Hawkins
  • Location(s): London, The Home Counties
  • Genre(s): Thriller
  • Era(s): Modern

Rachel catches the same commuter train every morning. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one...

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers
  • Author(s): Xiaolu Guo
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 2000s

A young Chinese woman comes to London to learn English, and learns about love, men, Europe and living amongst the British. She falls for a quasi hippie and the fact it is written in a stilted English adds to...

A Conspiracy of Friends

A Conspiracy of Friends
  • Author(s): Alexander McCall Smith
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

The third novel in the London-based Corduroy Mansions series from Alexander McCall Smith, comparable in warmth and humour to 44 Scotland Street

A Conspiracy of Paper

A Conspiracy of Paper
  • Author(s): David Liss
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Thriller
  • Era(s): 18th Century

Benjamin Weaver, a Jew and an ex-boxer, is an outsider in eighteenth-century London, tracking down debtors and felons for aristocratic clients. The son of a wealthy stock trader, he lives estranged from his family-until he is asked to investigate...

A Ghost Among Us

A Ghost Among Us
  • Author(s): Debora ElizaBeth Hill
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): Modern

Three young women rent a lovely house in Hampstead but discover that they have a “lodger” who is Sir Jerome Kennington, who was murdered. They embark on the quest to help him find his murderer, thereby releasing his soul....

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)

A Mysterious Affair of Style (Evadne Mount 2)
  • Author(s): Gilbert Adair
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Crime
  • Era(s): 1940s

London 1946. An actress is murdered, not just on camera but in full view of a crowded film set. Only six people had an opportunity to administer the poison yet not one of them had a conceivable motive. As...

A Poisoned Season

A Poisoned Season
  • Author(s): Tasha Alexander
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Historical, Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Mid 1800s

This mystery is about the descendants of the French monarchy: items are being stolen from the legacy of Marie Antoinette: Emily is receiving anonymous poems written in Greek: David Francis has been murdered….

A Proper Charlie

A Proper Charlie
  • Author(s): Louise Wise
  • Location(s): London
  • Genre(s): Humour, Romance

She’s losing her job. She’s losing her boyfriend. She can only afford to eat spaghetti hoops on toast. She’s called Charlie… or Charlotte, or ginger, ginge, Duracell, carrot. Yet with all these odds against her, she pushes forward to...

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